Re: Measuring Community Involvement (was Re: Contributor Summit planning)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 14, 2018, 20:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20180814200611.GG28452@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZYx-BOpx8SWeaP2Zskw0-OsSSVPZB4QJerAu9ST2swaA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:47:59PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:36 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, it was nice to see a more comprehensive list in one spot.
> >
> > It would be neat to have a tool that presents all of these
> > automatically, but I think the email ones are pretty tricky (most people
> > don't have the whole list archive sitting around).
> 
> With the advent of public inbox, this is easy to obtain?

For our project, yes. But I was thinking of a tool that could be used for other projects, too.

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> > At one point I sent a patch series that would let shortlog group by
> > trailers. Nobody seemed all that interested and I didn't end up using it
> > for its original purpose, so I didn't polish it further.  But I'd be
> > happy to re-submit it if you think it would be useful.
> 
> I would think it is useful. Didn't Linus also ask for a related thing?
> https://public-inbox.org/git/CA+55aFzWkE43rSm-TJNKkHq4F3eOiGR0-Bo9V1=a1s=vQ0KPqQ@mail.gmail.com/

He wanted grouping by committer, which we ended up adding as a separate feature. I think there's some discussion of the trailer thing in that thread.

-Peff